Scrooge Alert

During day 2 of being ill, I found my cable-less self watching the tail end of Good Day La. Rarely do I find myself being able to watch these shows so I am out of the loop when it comes to some trends... especially those concerning hot holiday toys for 2009. The last hot toy I can remember was Tickle me Elmo. Well, today on the show, they were talking about these little motorized hamsters called Zhu Zhu pets that are going to be the next toy. Seeing how I had never heard of them, I decided to do a quick search to see what these things were all about. During the search, I found that there was an abundance of folks who jumped on the Zhu Zhu pets bandwagon only to make a hefty profit off of nutty parents who will pay a premium for the chance to place the little electric hamster under the tree. If you do a search on ebay, these things are listed for prices that are much higher than the 10.99 list price.

Kind of cruel..........

Tribute to my field.......

A pretty amazing piece from artist Elizabeth Layton:

Grad School Humiliations

Along with the scholarship and academic rigor that most people think of when the concept of Grad School comes to mind are also the lesser known humiliations that coincide. I have been living a a world of bad sleeping habit and even worse eating habits. Cookies have replaced dinner for two reasons: lack of money, but more so, sheer laziness. With so such focus on work, school and interning, any sort of normal task like purchasing toilet paper has been severely neglected. Instead, limiting the amount of paper used has a greater appeal than, lets say, taking a forced trip to Ralph's. Tonight, it hit home. At 11:15 PM I found myself craving food that was warm. Having exhausted myself on Nutrigrain bars and coffee, I decided to step it up to the world of warmth. That step took me into the drive thru of Mc. Donald's. What did I opt to get? Yes. You guessed it. A Happy Meal. I guess talking with David last night about McDonald's and their ability to perfect the gold standard fry must have been on my mind. I ate my cheeseburger silently while thinking about my poor deodorant. My poor deodorant that after being used to near completion, was opened up by yours truly, and scraped clean of any usable remnants. And believe it or not, I have been able to round up enough usable solid to use throughout the week. That accomplishment became the absolute pinnacle of the cheap behavior that Grad School has forced me into.


I think tomorrow I should buy some new deodorant and go out for sushi..........

Arizona Adventures

As you all may have noticed, things have been sort of a ghost town here on the Modern Day Bullfight. Between the internship, the thesis, the classes, the job and the personal life, the blog has taken a bit of a backseat. This past weekend, I jetted back for a whirlwind trip to Phoenix. The main reason for the trip was to go to an Alumni Art Show that my former high school art teacher had put together. I decided to take full advantage of the trip and ended up doing the following:

-Seeing "Whip It" with my parents
-Eating pizza multiple times
-Arizona State Fair
-Serious thrift shopping
-Bikini Lounge
-Four Peaks
-Catching up with friends

Here are some notable pics. Note the Chocolate covered bacon sign. It was seen being sold around the fair along with other heinous delights like deep fried Moon Pies and deep fried Snickers. There was rumor of some chocolate covered scorpions but I saw no such thing.

Also at the fair is a collection of neat old photo booths....the classic kind. No digital here. These booths print up a 3 picture strip in lies of the traditional 4 set. They also come with a variety of silly wooden cut outs built into the booth. I will scan the actual strip later, but here are some digital pics from my canon.


And what Phoenix trip would be complete with out a trip to my good friend Cindy's house. A true thrift store partner in crime, you can read about her adventures here. Cindy by far has the coolest house that is the epitome of what I feel to be a perfect Arizona home.

If I had an extra 55 dollars.....

.....I would buy these markers. The architectural set. These chartpak markers are the best. While they have quite an odor, they leave no lines and blend amazingly well into the drawing. I had come across two lonely charkpak markers in my box of tricks here at home and wished I had more than just the blue and green. One day.......

TwitterTwatter

Since when did Twitter become such a reliable and credible source? It seems as if you cant get away from tweets these days. I was reading an article on CNN today regarding the death of a reality tv star's finance. Towards the end of the article, CNN posted the tweets from the grieving wife....verbatim. This is not an isolated incident. I have come across plenty of news articles written in their standard news article format and in the midst somewhere is bad twitter twatter. "OMG so tired2day." "OMgmbd" "need 2 get the word 2 my fanz". You name it, it has been seen in an article somewhere. And probably with out the use of a space bar......

There's a rock in my cereal......